[LorenPechtel]

Yeah, amazing what's not easy to find.

I recently found out about the ancient roads in China. These days they are hiking paths. I'm quite used to handling myself alone with a GPS track, I don't want a guide. I found one book that it's not remotely clear if it's got what I want as it's discussing much of China and it's old enough I'm not sure what the mapping info will be like.

[AlotOfReading]

You'd probably be better off not trying to navigate using GPS in China in the first place, given the whole mapping situation there.

[dewey]

Most popular hiking apps (Gaia GPS, AllTrails etc.) support the standard used in China, do you think people just navigate with paper maps there?

[LorenPechtel]

AllTrails couldn't find "Shanghai", but my subscription lapsed years ago. Gaia is what I use on the ground but it's about where you are, not about where the trail is.....but I'm finding one of the ancient roads. A bit of a mess but it looks viable.

GPS works properly in China, it's just the maps are a lie. If someone made a .gpx of a trail someone else could use it. The line is pointy and a bit disjoint so I suspect someone uploaded points to Open Street Map.

[master-lincoln]

You made me curious and I found this article detailing some background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_dat...